Affection Quotes

• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Valentines Day, Forgiveness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

  Pindar

  Christmas, Reality, Given

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• You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Two, Numbers

  "Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

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• To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

  Adam Smith

  Exercise, Perfection, Selfishness

  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".

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• A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Passion, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Passion, Kissing

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

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• Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

  John Wolcot

  Motivational, Reality, Given

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• Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Dog, Cat

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.16, Da Capo Press

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• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Heart, Equal

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.41, Princeton University Press

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  A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

  Mark Twain

  War, Names, Memorial

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.146, Purdue University Press

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• Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Good Life, Bases

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.362, 谷月社

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• Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Self, Enemy

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• Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

  Basil Rathbone

  Regret, Heart, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most people would rather give than get affection.

  Aristotle

  People, Giving, Moral Excellence

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• You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Angel, Evil

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Husband, Law, Long

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart.

  Enid Bagnold

  Sex, Heart, Mean

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• Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

  Jane Addams

  Real, Patriotic, Patriotism

  Jane Addams (2007). “Newer Ideals of Peace”

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• I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  People, Thai, Has Beens

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• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Love, Life, Positive

  Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

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• I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

  Richard Bach

  Respect, Love Relationship, Want

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• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Love, Valentines Day, Nature

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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